A third alternative is to take a look at asyncore.compact_traceback. That will only help modestly in Cecil's example, but I found it helpful.
Skip On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 2:50:12 PM UTC-4, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> While playing with recursion I get: >> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison >> >> But then I get a very long stack trace. Is there a way to make this a >> lot shorter. Now I 'lose' interesting information because of the >> length of the stack trace. > > There isn't a way to shorten the stack trace. If you are losing > information at the top because of your terminal window, you can > likely increase the number of lines it will keep for you. > > Another option is to reduce the maximum stack depth, so that it > is exceeded sooner, which produces shorter stack traces: > > import sys; > sys.setrecursionlimit(50) > > > --Ned. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
